Electronic Resource
Cambridge
:
Cambridge University Press
The @journal of modern African studies
6 (1968), S. 461-473
ISSN:
0022-278X
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
Ethnic Sciences
,
History
,
Political Science
,
Economics
Notes:
That the distinction between myth and history is a tenuous one hardly requires elaborate documentation. Anthropologists have recorded the way in which accounts of the tribal past, recorded in genealogies, change with the organisation of the social groups to which they refer. In Malinowski's phrase, they serve as the ‘mythical charters’ of the social system. But this is a feature not only of non-literate societies.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X00017705
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